Democrats grow anxious as Election Day nears

There is a growing sense that Kamala Harris' campaign is stuck in the mud as debates crop up over where and how to deploy precious resources.

The campaign considers the seven most competitive battleground states to be tied or within the margin of error.

The nervous energy stems from the fact of the race’s slim margins.

“People are nervous. They know the polls are tight,” a source close to the campaign said.

In 2016 , a combination of minor but widespread polling errors, crossed with disbelief that Clinton could not defeat Clinton , created a lasting post-election paranoia the party has not shook.

In response to the Harris campaign’s struggle to recreate, in short order, operatives and allies are publicly and privately working to make the case to voters in close-up, intimate spaces.

A Democratic organizer in Georgia lamented that outside pro-Harrris groups in the state are being outspent on TV and mail, but said the state of the party’s field operation is particularly troubling.

With right-wing disinformation about immigrants being directed at low-information communities, the operative stressed the need for more direct contacts.